Night Flying

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Night Flying

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hucbr600	hucbr600 posted 12/9/2015 5:28:05 PM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 20, Visits: 240	Hi Folks, Has anyone tried the various charts/ipad mini setting to determine what combination works best during night flying? If so - fancy sharing your preferred set-up? Hugh
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kobaje	kobaje posted 1/2/2016 12:33:25 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 28, Visits: 205	Hi Hugh, my preferred setting is "Sky Demon High Contrast Map" with brightness set to minimum. Although it should be a little darker, it works quite well. Cheers Jens
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olivier_RD	o olivier_RD posted 11/9/2022 7:33:11 AM Post Details Share Post
o Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 0	Great Tip Tim about the reduce white point option. Thanks I have my first night VFR tonight and preparing for it I wanted to find a way to switch Skydemon to night mode. So naturally I came to this forum and started searching. I'm a bit surprised that Skydemon has no dedicated night mode. Sure it's probably not as popular as in the US I guess. but it would be a shame to have to discard SD for night flying because of the lack of this feature. So I'd like to add my voice to request for enhancement and add a night mode to Skydemon, if possible. In the meantime, I setup my Ipad to enable ultra low brightness( decrease white point) with a triple push of the home button I hope that will be enough to keep night vision .
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grahamb	grahamb posted 11/9/2022 9:12:30 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 595, Visits: 29K	+x olivier_RD - 11/9/2022 7:33:11 AM I'm a bit surprised that Skydemon has no dedicated night mode. Sure it's probably not as popular as in the US I guess. but it would be a shame to have to discard SD for night flying because of the lack of this feature. So I'd like to add my voice to request for enhancement and add a night mode to Skydemon, if possible. In the meantime, Have you not tried the ‘SkyDemon High Contrast’ chart style, found under the Mapping Tools control bottom right of the screen?
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DaveWhite	DaveWhite posted 11/9/2022 11:53:39 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 53, Visits: 205	@kobaje, if you are flying on NVIS your problem is more likely to be the device screen display light frequencies than a SkyDemon setting. Cockpit lighting for NVG/NVIS is a very complex and specialist area - a consumer device is unlikely to meet the required compatibility specs unless modified.
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